[2nd President and Spiritual Head: the Ramakrishna Centre of South Africa]
DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
730
End of Yoga Camp talk by Swamiji
To the youths: You may have freedom of speech in schools, colleges and universities. I pity the lecturers and teachers that teach you from the bottom of my heart because I can just imagine what they go through with the authorities and what they go through with you. Freedom of speech does not mean that you must say things that will hurt others. Freedom of speech means you must express things in such a way that it will become a constructive rather that a destructive thing. And if your concept of freedom of speech is to say things that will bring bad feeling, then I say to you, 'Sir, you are on the wrong path. Start retracing your path.'
Never-the-less you are still my children and I am not going to condemn you for this. There are only four or five youths who are actually doing this but the other innocent youths had to follow you because, as you know, young children are hero worshippers and they think that you are heroes. But in reality you are not heroes, you are cowards. If you cannot discipline yourself even for three days what kind of a human being are you?
To the parents I say: Take note and deal with your children in a way that befits parents.
When you are young you may not like it but your mother and father force you to go to school. That does not mean you go there and misbehave. Your mother and father force you to go to school because they know that it is the thing that will benefit you the most at this stage of life.
To the parents who say: "you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink", I say: you are mad. There is a way to make it drink. [laughter] Tie up its legs, block its nose with something and let it breath through its mouth and then pour the water into its mouth. It has to swallow it. So please do not come up with this idea. There is a method and if you know the method you will get treated.
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